A book of essays, interviews and artwork that together offer a minor history of failure. Tracing the idea of failure through contemporary art, activism and social protest movements, literature and philosophy, the work in Failure! cuts against a notion of forward progress by instead exploring various dead-ends on the timeline of history. Failure! gives us ways to map our lives in relationship to improper paths. From Valerie Solanas to the Weather Underground, and beyond (and behind). Contributors include: Catherine Lord, Doug Harvey, Sam Green, Sam Durant, Yoshua Okón, Eduardo Abaroa, William Pope L., Temporary Services, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Catherine Hollander, Zoe Trodd, David Schafer, Richard Dedomenici, Alex Juhasz, Sarah Kanouse, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Sarah Lewison, John Conley, and Tommy Williford.

Failure!: Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices

Lord, Catherine

Harvey, Doug.

Pope.L, William

Durant, Sam

Okón, Yoshua

Abaroa, Eduardo

Arts & Photography

Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press

An Atlas of Radical Cartography makes an important contribution to a growing cultural movement that traverses the boundaries between art, cartography, geography and activism. It pairs writers with artists, architects, designers and collectives to address the role of the map as political agent (rather than neutral document). Ten mapping projects dealing with social and political issues such as migration, incarceration, globalization, housing rights, garbage and energy issues are complemented by 10 critical essays and dialogues responding to each map. The maps themselves are printed as posters, unbound for leisurely perusal. Among the contributors are artists Trevor Paglen, John Emerson, Ashley Hunt and Pedro Lasch and essayists Avery Gordon, Heather Rogers, Alejandro De Acosta and Jenny Price. An Atlas of Radical Cartography also serves as a catalogue to the exhibition An Atlas, which has been touring the United States and internationally since July of 2007.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography

Sen, Jai

Rogers, Heather

Price, Jenny

Gordon, Avery

Lewison, Sarah

Casas, Maribel

Cobbarubias, Sebastian

De Acosta, Alejandro

Abramsky, Kolya

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